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The Splicer model "Dr. Grossman" is one of the roving medical personnel in Rapture. He is overly eager to provide the player with surgery and his dialogue suggests he was very careless as a doctor, and became one solely for the sake of cutting into people. In addition to his poor bedside manner, he is also a paranoid germophobe.

Dr. Grossman also appears in BioShock 2. He seems more aware of his current situation, but this is only in brief flashes of realization. He proceeds to return to his old, sadistic, and germophobic state soon after.

Dr. Grossman wears the uniform of a medical professional, botanist, scientist, or laboratory technician. It consists of a Howie-style lab coat with three intact buttons, pair of black boots, rubber gloves, and surgical mask. Compare to other Splicers, Dr. Grossman looks the least damaged, but Splicing and the Civil War have still caused physical and mental distress. His clothes are soiled by varying amounts of blood and other materials and the top buttons on his coat are missing causing it to sag. He is blind in his left eye which is usually bloodshot. Most models have brown eyes and hair. He is bald on the top of his head except for a few hairs and has a large throbbing vein on the left side of his head. Dr. Grossman can wear medical reflectors or magnifying headgear as accessories, but only up til Arcadia.

Model 1: The primary model wears a white outfit. His buttons are white, his gloves are pale green, and his mask is a sky blue color. This model is covered head to toe in blood spray. His left eye is bloodshot.

Model 2: This model wears a beige outfit. His buttons are white, his gloves are a darker green, and his mask is a steel blue color. This model so resembles the first model, they almost look the same. However, it has a wider variety of blood smear across it and his upper torso and head are covered in lavender specks. His left eye is bloodshot.

Model 3: This model wears a green outfit. His buttons are white, his gloves are yellow, and his mask is a light blue color. This model has the most soiled outfit and appears to be bleeding from the nose and eyes.

Model 4: This model wears an azure blue outfit. His buttons are off white, his gloves are orange, and his mask is a pale blue. The front of his coat is a beige color that is meant to look like a separate smock. His face and mask is covered in lavender specks. He seems to be suffering from vitiligo and he has white hair. His right eye is olive colored, his left is jaundiced.

Model 5: This model wears the uniform of the Saturnine cult. Located only in Arcadia, his face, red coat and mask are streaked with white paint and his gloves are a pale hunter green color.

Of all the BioShock 2 Splicers, Dr. Grossman's appearance is the most similar to his original counterpart; he also looks the least mutated, but that's simply because his ensemble covers most of his body. Said ensemble consists of a long pair of medical scrubs, matching face mask and scalp cover, a pair of gloves, boots, and a head-mounted optical magnifier. Just as before, the lab coat is of the Howie variety; knee-length, long sleeved, wide mandarin collar, and buttons up along the right shoulder. The smock is deeply soiled, frayed, full of tears, has an asymmetrical hemline, and a pair of pens in the pocket. He appears to be wearing pants that match his coat color. His left pant leg is torn open just above the boot to reveal a growth. His right sleeve has a gaping tear revealing bulbous tumors growing along his arms. His head is the least covered part of his body: he has high, pointed cheek bones, attached earlobes, and short hair. His left eye is covered by his eyepiece and below that is a large, sagging growth covering part of his face. Dr. Grossman can wear a head-mounted flashlight as an accessory.

Model 1: The primary model wears a grey outfit. His lab coat, scalp cap, and mask are grey, his gloves and boots are taupe, and his hair and pens are a yellowy-blonde color. This model is covered in grime. His eyes are blue.

Model 2: This model wears a white outfit. His lab coat, scalp cap, and mask are grey, his gloves are a gray-green color, his boots are brown, and his hair and pens are a yellowy-blonde color. This model appears to be a person of color. His coat is covered in patches of blood; most notably, he has a pair of bloody handprints streaked across his front as though someone was clinging desperately to him before collapsing. His eyes are brown and his left one is bloodshot.

Model 3: This model wears a red outfit. His lab coat, scalp cap, and mask are red, his gloves are white, his boots are a russet color, and his hair and pens are black. This model appears the least damaged of all three. His coat looks relatively clean, the hemline (while frayed) has no holes, and his sleeve is intact making it look like he has no visible mutations on his torso. His eyes are brown and the left one looks simultaneously bloodshot and jaundiced.